[Perform-talk] Talent Show?

Thu Apr 28 15:01:05 UTC 2011

Hello Dennis and everyone,

    I've left Dennis's comments below and will insert a response:

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dennis HR Sumlin" <DHolston at nyc.rr.com>
To: "Performing Arts Division list" <perform-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 8:56 AM
Subject: Re: [Perform-talk] Talent Show?

Hello folks.
The division puts lots of time and effert into promoting the talents of
blind people. See, sound in Sight Volumes 1 and 2, and the Mary Anne Parks
scholarship.

A.
    They're very well produced and something anyone could share with a 
prospective recording agent or sell to promote the division. The productions 
showcase the true talents and capabilities of the blind.

The talent show is just another way to enjoy the convention,
and the careers of blind people are not on the line.

A.
    If the talent show was specifically an in-house event (Not available 
online) this would be true. But once you begin broadcasting such events and 
archive them on a Web site they become available to anyone wishing to hear 
them hence the need for high-quality presentations. Can you be 100% sure 
that a perspective blind entertainer who may have performed during the 
talent showdidn't direct a potential employer to the divisions Web site only 
to hear a substandard recording of this person's presentation. Can we be 
sure that doesn't happen? The Web is an open destination for folks to obtain 
information and hear sample presentations made by individuals seeking 
employment of one kind or another. as a Webmaster I know this for a fact. It 
does happen. Poorly produced presentations have jeopardized opportunities 
for the sighted and can also do the same for the blind if care is not taken 
to insure that any audio and video presentations produced that showcase the 
talents of blind individuals are of the highest quality possible.

  If the division were to
get imagination fund money, we would put it towards projects that put blind
people out there in the mainstreem market.

A. If some of those projects involve creating presentations that showcase 
the abilities of blind performers having the equipment to produce first-rate 
presentations falls in with such an objective.

    And  I guess this talent show issue
just gives some people something to talk about.

And the beat goes on.....ever lasting.

A.
    Take it from an NFB Webmaster who has seen the best and worst of Web 
presentations created by members of this organization, and who helped clean 
up a number of them so they honor our cause and help us change what it means 
to be blind.

Peter Donahue

\-----Original Message----- 
From: Peter Donahue
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 11:02 AM
To: Performing Arts Division list
Subject: Re: [Perform-talk] Talent Show?

Hello Lisa and everyone,

    And when the potential careers of blind performers are on the line that
funding must be found or the division should take advantage of free offers
of help when it is given. Two such offers have been made thus far.

Peter Donahue

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lisa Ostrow" <ostrow5 at comcast.net>
To: "Performing Arts Division list" <perform-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 8:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Perform-talk] Talent Show?

If we had the funding to rent the equipment, such as stage monitors, we
surely would.  It all comes down to funding, really.

Lisa

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joshua Lester" <jlester8462 at students.pccua.edu>
To: "Performing Arts Division list" <perform-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 9:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Perform-talk] Talent Show?

>I couldn't even hear myself, as I was singing with Sarah.
> I also had trouble hearing Julie.
> Blessings, Joshua
>
> On 4/26/11, Sarah Alawami <marrie12 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> No insolt. I did offer to help and learn the equipment. ok I'm not any
>> good
>> but I bet I could have done better then who ever did it last year. the
>> mix
>> was awful! the sound system coild not be heard in the back. over all the
>> performance just all around sucked. Ok not the performers, all of them
>> were
>> very very very good, but the ingineer just sucked majorly.
>>
>> Take care.
>> Sarah Alawami
>>
>> If you  need an edit  done on a small project go to
>> http://music.marrie.org/master.html for more info. If you need to contact
>> me
>> my info is below.
>>
>> MSN and AIM: marrie12 at gmail.com
>>
>> website: http://music.marrie.org
>> Podcast: http://marrie.podbean.com
>> youtube: http://youtube.com/marrie125
>>
>> On Apr 26, 2011, at 3:43 PM, Brett Boyer wrote:
>>
>>> Hi. I wonder why this is such sn issue. I mean there are lots of blind
>>> folks out here who specialize in audio production. I mean if you told me
>>> the video wasn't great I'd say ok that's a little more understandable
>>> but
>>> for sound to be poor quality when that is our primary resource. Granted
>>> I
>>> don't know anything about the setup or who was involved. I'm just
>>> commenting after seeing these few posts today.
>>> Sorry if I insulted anyone just making an observation.
>>> bb
>>>
>>> Brett Boyer
>>> Audio Production and voice over
>>> http://brettboyer.voices.com
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Donahue"
>>> <pdonahue2 at satx.rr.com>
>>> To: "Performing Arts Division list" <perform-talk at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 4:37 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Perform-talk] Talent Show?
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hello again everyone,
>>>>
>>>>   Especially when sound quality has the potential to make or break the
>>>> career choices of budding blind entertainers. We have enough against us
>>>> having to overcome societies attitudes towards the blind. Poor quality
>>>> audio
>>>> produced by an organization whose stated mission is to dispel these
>>>> attitudes and promote the talents and abilities of the blind is
>>>> producing
>>>> the program.
>>>>
>>>> Peter Donahue
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jorge Paez"
>>>> <computertechjorgepaez at gmail.com>
>>>> To: "Performing Arts Division list" <perform-talk at nfbnet.org>
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 4:49 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [Perform-talk] Talent Show?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sarah:
>>>> I'm the same way.
>>>>
>>>> On Apr 26, 2011, at 5:31 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Actually to me it was quite bad. I asked if i could help but the guy
>>>>> said
>>>>> Oh no I work wiht my own people basically  so Yeah I don't think I'll
>>>>> participate if i go this year becaus of that. If theuy don't need my
>>>>> advice then so bee it. I won't perform. I like my sound perfect and
>>>>> perfect is the way I will have it.
>>>>> Sarah Alawami
>>>>>
>>>>> If you  need an edit  done on a small project go to
>>>>> http://music.marrie.org/master.html for more info. If you need to
>>>>> contact
>>>>> me my info is below.
>>>>>
>>>>> MSN and AIM: marrie12 at gmail.com
>>>>>
>>>>> website: http://music.marrie.org
>>>>> Podcast: http://marrie.podbean.com
>>>>> youtube: http://youtube.com/marrie125
>>>>>
>>>>> On Apr 26, 2011, at 8:04 AM, Dennis HR Sumlin wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> The sound quality was not that bad at all last year, and the sound
>>>>>> workers were there to make sure that the sound for the stage was on
>>>>>> point. The quality was just fine. Of corce, there can always be
>>>>>> improvement, however, that may cost more money. If we were to get
>>>>>> donations for that purpose, then we could make that happen.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message----- From: Peter Donahue
>>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 10:48 AM
>>>>>> To: Performing Arts Division list
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [Perform-talk] Talent Show?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Good morning everyone,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Here's hoping the audio quality of any broadcast of the 2011 talent
>>>>>> show
>>>>>> will be much better than it was last year. We were told that sound
>>>>>> tech
>>>>>> were
>>>>>> coming in to handle the broadcast and expected quality similar to
>>>>>> that
>>>>>> of
>>>>>> the national and several state convention streams broadcast during
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> past
>>>>>> year. Pleas do your best to insure that this happens this year.
>>>>>> Addressing
>>>>>> this issue will do wonders to insure that concerns of this kind don't
>>>>>> appear
>>>>>> here in the future. All the best.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Peter Donahue
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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